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A word after a word after a word is power.
Margaret Atwood on power

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
Madame de Stael on power

The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.
Benjamin Spock on power

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!
David O. McKay on power

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
Hannah Arendt on power

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
David Hume on power

In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.
Rick Warren on power

The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.
Jonathan Sacks on power

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.
Francis Thompson on power

We should keep silent about those in power to speak well of them almost implies flattery to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
Jean de la Bruyere on power

Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
Barbara Corcoran on power

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
Noam Chomsky on power

Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.
Martin Scorsese on power

There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.
Dennis Prager on power

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
Blaine Lee on power

The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.
Rick Perry on power

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
Toni Morrison on power

Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
David Seabury on power

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
Baruch Spinoza on power

It is a power stronger than will. Could a stone escape from the laws of gravity? Impossible. Impossible, for evil to form an alliance with good.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont on power